Nearly a year after animal rights activist and scholar Scott DeMuth
was ordered to testify before a federal grand jury in Iowa, he has agreed
to plead guilty to a misdemeanor. After Demuth refused to testify before
the grand jury in October 209, the government filed conspiracy charges
against him under the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act (AETA) related to
an action at the University of Iowa in which 401 laboratory animals were
freed from a lab in 2004, an incident for which the Animal Liberation
Front claimed responsibility.

Last April, DeMuth was re-indicted for conspiracy for the ALF raid at
the University of Iowa in 2004 and also another action involving ferrets
freed from a facility in Howard Lake, Minnesota as well as "other animal
enterprises elsewhere," according to the Support Scott DeMuth website.